Nature Quotes - Page 68

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

With my portable recording system, I didn't feel like I was listening as a distant observer; rather, I had been sucked into a new space - becoming an integral part of the experience itself.

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.

The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels that God is in nature, that the orderly ways in which nature works are themselves the manifestations of God's will and purpose. Its laws are his orderly way of working.

To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.

The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.

I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way.

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

All art is an imitation of nature.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

I believe in order to understand

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.